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Zero999 on 02 May 2014
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setsunatenshi said:
padib said:

Sorry, I didn't realize that targeting segments of a market made you a charity. Are you upset Mattel is not presenting Barbie at E3 this year?

As for you as a Nintendo customer, you are a Nintendo customer. Why would they have to win you over? They release games that appeal to you, which don't require the appeal of the bulk of PS4XB owners (the proof is in the different content).


Inadvertedly you picked the perfect example to prove my point exactly. Mattel are not a player on the videogame industry, so they aren't supposed to be in E3, on the other hand they are in the toy manufactoring business. If all they did was Barbie, then I would hand it to you for having a point on this one, but look how diverse their product line is

http://corporate.mattel.com/our-toys/

No big corporation will ever look to shrink their market the way you are assuming Nintendo is/should. They used to be, along with SEGA, the 2 main players in the industry. They have the history and back catalog (not just 1st parties, but 3rd parties too) to remain a big player. It's a damn tragedy the point to which they got by completely giving up on attempting to keep the core market they used to have with games like Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Earthbound, etc.

But anyway, I think you see what I'm trying to express here. It just bothers me to see the bipolar attitude on the Nintendo fanbase, half of the people demanding the type of support from publishers and media that Sony and MS get, the other half saying they aren't competing. If they really aren't competing I would suggest completely removing the WiiU and 3ds from the charts here in the mainpage and put them in a section by themselves while we're at it.

oh dear. Nintendo is the company who most atempts to keep their core market, and suceeds.